Turmeric smuggled from India seized off Mannar

CID questions Ranil over Central Bank treasury bond scam

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) questioned former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe over the Central Bank treasury bond scam today. A CID team visited his residence Colombo this evening to record the statement. They left after recording a statement for approximately four hours. The Central Bank treasury bond scam had taken place when Wickremesinghe was Prime Minister and former Minister Ravi Karunanayake was the Finance Minister. Attorney General Dappula de Livera had last mon

03 Jul, 2020

Another group of Indians repatriated from Sri Lanka

A group of 117 Indian nationals stranded in Sri Lanka were repatriated on a special Air India (AI 0274) flight from Colombo to Chennai today (Friday). The flight was scheduled as part of phase IV of ?Vande Bharat Mission? a Government of India initiative to undertake the largest ever repatriation from all over the world for return of Indian nationals stranded abroad due to COVID19 pandemic. The next special repatriation flight from Sri Lanka under Vande Bharat Mission are AI 0282 – Colombo to

03 Jul, 2020

MCC review committee says proposal good but conditions must change

A four-member committee appointed to review the proposed Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement said today that while the proposal is good the conditions in the agreement are harmful to Sri Lanka. Addressing the media today, the committee led by Lalithasiri Gunaruwan, Professor of Economics of the University of Colombo, said that the committee has advised President Gotabaya Rajapaksa not to sign the MCC agreement in its current form. Gunaruwan said that if the harmful conditions in t

03 Jul, 2020